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The History of Receipt and Recipe
These days it may seem odd to speak of "grandma's cookie receipt," but in the past, receipt was a synonym of recipe. Early use of receipt refers to medicinal preparations. Recipe didn't arrive until the 1500s, and it too was first used to describe a formula for medicine. In time, both words gained use in cookery, after which recipe slowly became the preferred word. Receipt later acquired its more familiar sense of "a writing acknowledging the receiving of goods or money." Both words, receipt and recipe, ultimately derive from Latin recipere ("to receive").
Examples of receipt in a Sentence
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Most of the people in line, including the man in blue, clutch stacks of documents that include car titles, registration receipts and even handwritten instructions from their local DMVs.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
Customers can also try to retrieve receipts from Walmart’s website.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
Dougherty’s affidavit said some deposit slips were missing as was a receipts and disbursements journal.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
Deadline for receipt of television nomination ballots.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
Wendy and Nneka face off to clear up all the rumors, but things go south when a bombshell receipt is put on the table.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
The movie’s global box office receipts through Sunday rose to $626.1 million, according to Comscore.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Every transaction related to your business should be recorded and stored, from physical receipts to digital invoices.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
The rebate is available through a website where customers must upload a photo of the UPC and receipt for a purchase made between May 17 and May 31.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
Real estate tax bill or receipt for the current year or the previous year.
—Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
Failure to properly document employee bonuses and stipends, and Failure to properly receipt and deposit money collected on behalf of the school.
—al, 6 Oct. 2022
Since the company’s American depository receipts trade in New York, there’s also the threat of expensive class-action suits.
—Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
Ground transportation for Vice President Mike Pence's stay at President Donald Trump's Doonbeg, Ireland, resort cost taxpayers nearly $600,000, according to State Department receipts.
—Allan Smith, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2019
The state’s supplemental operating budget increases that receipt authority, though the governor has not yet signed that budget.
—James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
Last year, Beijing wanted to lure Chinese tech companies to list in the mainland by issuing Chinese depository receipts dubbed CDR, akin to the ADRs and GDRs used to facilitate global companies in New York and London.
—Jacky Wong, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2019
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“Receipt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/receipt. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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